22 March 2011

New Lutheran Quote of the Day

Today we share the same Bible with the worst of the sects. The true church is gathered not around Scripture, but around the rightly understood, the purely and correctly interpreted Bible. It is the task of the church's confession to express the right understanding of Scripture which the Church has reached. Thus pastors are helped to proclaim only the pure doctrine, and congregations are protected against the whims of the preacher and the misinterpretation of Scripture. In this sense the church's confession is servant of the Word. -- Hermann Sasse, *We Confess: Jesus Christ* p. 84.

2 comments:

Anonymous
said...

A serious reading of 1 Timothy willemphasize that an overseer/pastormust be able to teach. This meansthat the pastor has the teachingresponsibility to exhort sounddoctrine from the truth of Holy Scripture and to refute those whocontradict true doctrine.

The landscape of American Christianity is littered with conceited pastor/teachers with a serious lack of understanding....

Herman Sasse understood the value and the purpose of the historic teachings of the Church. I believe the American evangelical wasteland is creating, unknowingly, a hunger that the Church's confession is more than able to satisfy. What a wonderful period it is to be an orthodox, confessional Lutheran in America.